Race/Gender

This hour, we’ll talk about the founder of the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project with Hector Galán, director of the PBS documentary “Willie Velasquez: Your Vote Is Your Voice,” which airs Oct. 3 on KERA-TV.

This hour, we’ll talk about how Baylor and many other universities turn a blind eye to sexual assault claims – and about how these schools can address the issue – with Jessica Luther. Her book is called “Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape.”

This hour, we’ll talk with Aaron Mak about his experience covering a Black Lives Matter protest in Milwaukee, which he recently wrote about for Politico. And later in the hour, we’ll further examine how minority groups relate to one another with Kat Chow of NPR’s “Code Switch” podcast.

This hour, as part of KERA’s American Graduate initiative, we’ll talk about how we can help young people process the many issues that contribute to these violent acts with a panel of child psychologists.

This hour, we’ll talk about how the Thirteenth Amendment led to Jim Crow laws, how Brown v. Board of Education led to shutting down public schools and other instances of Civil Rights backlash with Carol Anderson, chair of the African American Studies department at Emory University.

This hour, in partnership with WRKF in Baton Rouge and WWNO in New Orleans, KERA will air “12 Days in July: Our Shared Tragedy,” an hourlong special looking at how residents of Baton Rouge and Dallas are coping with the violence that visited their cities – and how all Americans might learn and move on from the events.

President Obama travels to Dallas today for an interfaith memorial service remembering the police officers killed here last week. KERA will air live coverage of the service, which also features former President Bush, starting at noon. And after the speech, we’ll have a live national call-in special to continue the conversation about race and law enforcement in America.

Hour 2: As the citizens of Dallas continue to cope with the shock of last week’s brutal attack on law enforcement officers, we’ll talk this hour with city leaders working to hold the community together. We’ll begin the show with a conversation with Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and we’ll also be joined by Dallas Police Association vice president Michael Mata and Richie Butler, senior pastor of St. Paul United Methodist Church.

In this special two hour edition of Think, we’ll discuss the Downtown Dallas shootings and their aftermath with eye witnesses, experts in law enforcement and race as well as members of the KERA News team covering the story.